Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
WAIVER AND AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
WAIVER
AND AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of October 23,
2007 (this “ Amendment ”), among ATARI, INC., a
Delaware corporation, as borrower (the “ Borrower
”), the lenders party to the Credit Agreement referred to
below (the “ Lenders ”), and BLUEBAY HIGH YIELD
INVESTMENTS (LUXEMBOURG) S.A.R.L., as successor administrative
agent (in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent
”). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings given them in the Credit Agreement referred
to below.
W I T N E S S
E T H :
WHEREAS,
the parties hereto are parties to that certain Credit Agreement,
dated as of November 3, 2006 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified to, but not including, the date hereof, the “
Credit Agreement ”);
WHEREAS,
the Defaults and Events of Default specified on Schedule 1
hereto have occurred prior to and are continuing as of the date
hereof (collectively, the “ Existing Defaults
”); and
WHEREAS,
the Borrower has requested that the Lenders waive the Existing
Defaults and amend the Credit Agreement, and the Lenders have
agreed to such waiver and amendments on the terms and conditions
set forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, it is agreed:
I.
Waiver . Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Amendment, and in reliance on the representations, warranties and
covenants of the Borrower contained herein, from and after the
Amendment Effective Date (as defined below), the Lenders waive all
Existing Defaults. Nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute a
waiver of compliance by the Borrower with its representations,
warranties, covenants or obligations under, or compliance with any
term, provision or condition of, the Credit Agreement (as amended
hereby) or any other Loan Document from and after the Amendment
Effective Date.
II.
Amendments to the Credit Agreement . Subject to the terms
and conditions of this Amendment, and in reliance on the
representations, warranties and covenants of the Borrower contained
herein, from and after the Amendment Effective Date, the Credit
Agreement is amended as follows:
1.
Section 1.01 is amended as follows:
(a) the
definition of “Administrative Agent” is amended by
deleting “Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC” and
substituting therefor “BlueBay High Yield Investments
(Luxembourg) S.A.R.L.”;
(b) the
definition of “Affiliate” is amended by inserting
immediately before the period at the end thereof the following:
“, provided that neither the
Administrative
Agent nor any Lender shall be an ‘Affiliate’ as such
term is used in this Agreement or in any other Loan
Document”;
(c) the
definition of “Aggregate Revolving Commitment” is
amended by amending and restating the second sentence thereof as
follows: “The Aggregate Revolving Commitment is Ten Million
Dollars ($10,000,000).”;
(d) the
definition of “Applicable Rate” is amended by amending
and restating the chart set forth therein as follows:
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(e) the
definition of “Maturity Date” is amended by deleting
“November 3, 2009” and substituting therefor
“December 31, 2009”;
(f) the
definition of “Obligations” is amended by amending and
restating the parenthetical in the second sentence thereof as
follows:
“(in any case, including such
amounts which accrue after the commencement by or against any
Credit Party of any proceeding under any federal, state or foreign
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or
hereafter in effect, notwithstanding the commencement of such
proceeding, and the operation of Section 502(b)(2) of the United
States Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. §§ 101, et
seq .))”; and
(g) the
following new defined terms are inserted in the appropriate
alphabetical order:
‘“ Amendment Effective
Date ’ means the date the conditions set forth in
Part V of the Waiver and Amendment to Credit Agreement are
satisfied or waived by the Lenders.
‘ Budget ’ shall
mean the Borrower’s budget delivered to the Administrative
Agent on the Amendment Effective Date pursuant to paragraph
(b) of Part V of the Waiver and Amendment to Credit
Agreement, as such Budget is amended, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time with the
Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, which shall not
be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
‘ Budget Period ’
means each rolling four-week period covered by the Budget,
commencing with the week of October 1, 2007.
‘ Material Adverse
Deviation ’ means, as of the date of determination, an
adverse deviation in excess of (i) 10%, in respect of the
Budget line items for (x)
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total receipts,
(y) research and development, or (z) overhead plus
distribution and freight, or (ii) $1,000,000, in respect of the
Budget line item for cash flow.
‘ Permitted Deviation
’ means any deviation from any line item in the Budget that
is not a Material Adverse Deviation.
‘ Waiver and Amendment to
Credit Agreement ’ means the Waiver and Amendment to
Credit Agreement, dated as of October 23, 2007, among the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party
thereto.”.
2.
Section 2.01(a) is amended by (i) amending and restating
the first sentence thereof as follows:
“Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, each Lender agrees to make Revolving Loans to
the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an
aggregate amount that would not result in the Revolving Credit
Exposure of such Lender exceeding the Revolving Commitment of such
Lender.”; and
(ii) deleting the second sentence
thereof.
3.
Section 2.01(b) is amended and restated as follows:
“(b) [intentionally
deleted].”.
4.
Section 2.02(b) is amended by amending and restating the first
sentence thereof as follows:
“Subject to
Sections 2.07(e) and 2.14, each Borrowing shall be comprised
entirely of Eurodollar Loans and maintained as such
(notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained elsewhere in
this Agreement or in any other Loan Document).”.
5.
Section 2.05 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION 2.05. Letters of
Credit . The Borrower shall not request the issuance of, and
neither the Issuing Lender nor any other Lender shall have an
obligation to issue, or purchase participations in, as the case may
be, Letters of Credit, from and after the Amendment Effective
Date.”.
6.
Section 2.08(b) is amended by amending and restating clause
(iii) thereof as follows:
“(iii) [intentionally
deleted].”.
7.
Section 2.11 is amended by (i) deleting “the lesser
of” and “or the Formula Amount” from paragraph
(b), and (ii) deleting “clauses (a), (b) and
(c) of Section 6.10” from paragraph (e) and
substituting therefor “clauses (a), (b), (c) and
(e) of Section 6.10”.
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8.
Section 2.12(a) is amended by (i) deleting
“0.75%” and substituting therefor “3.0%”,
and (ii) inserting “Amendment” immediately before
“Effective Date”.
9.
Section 2.13(c) is amended and restated as follows:
“Notwithstanding the foregoing,
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of
Default, interest shall accrue at the rate per annum equal to two
percent (2%) in excess of (i) in the case of the unpaid
principal amount of any Loan, the rate otherwise applicable to such
Loan as provided in the previous paragraphs of this Section, and
(ii) in the case of any other amount, the rate applicable to
ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this
Section.”.
10.
Section 3.04(c) is amended by (i) deleting
“March 31, 2006” in each place it appears and
substituting therefor “the Amendment Effective Date”,
(ii) deleting “and prior to the Effective Date”,
and (iii) inserting “10-K,” immediately before
“10-Q”.
11.
Section 3.16 is amended and restated as follows:
“ SECTION 3.16. [Intentionally
Deleted].”.
12.
Section 4.02 is amended by (i) adding the following new
paragraph (d) thereto:
“(d) The aggregate amount of
cash and cash equivalents owned or held by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries (determined after giving pro forma
effect to the making of each Revolving Loan and the application of
proceeds therefrom and from any other cash on hand (to the extent
such proceeds and/or other cash are actually utilized by the
Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries on the date of the incurrence of
such Revolving Loan for a permitted purpose under this Agreement
other than an investment in cash equivalents or other Permitted
Investments)) shall not exceed $5,000,000 (for purposes of cash
denominated in a currency other than Dollars, taking the Dollar
equivalent of such cash as determined on the date of the incurrence
of the Revolving Loan), exclusive of proceeds of any license of
intellectual property permitted by
Section 6.10(e).”;
(ii) deleting
“paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)” from the last
sentence thereof and substituting therefor “paragraphs (a),
(b), (c) and (d)”; and
(iii) inserting
immediately before the period at the end of the last sentence
thereof the following: “and a reaffirmation by the Borrower
of the release set forth in Part VI of the Waiver and
Amendment to Credit Agreement”.
13.
Section 5.01 is amended as follows:
(i) paragraph
(b) is amended by inserting the following immediately before
the first comma:
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“(or,
in the case of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended
June 30, 2007, by November 30, 2007)”;
(ii) paragraph
(d) is amended by deleting “and” from the end
thereof;
(iii) the
following new paragraph (e) is inserted immediately after
paragraph (d):
“(e) weekly, on or before the
third Business Day of each week, in form and substance, and in line
item detail, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, a report
specifying the variances, if any, between the results of operations
for the immediately preceding Budget Period (including actual cash
receipts and expenditures) and the projections for such Budget
Period in the Budget, which shall be accompanied by a certificate
of a Financial Officer of the Borrower certifying the
Borrower’s compliance with the Budget (including the absence
of any Material Adverse Deviation) and that the variance report
fairly presents the results of operations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for the Budget Period covered thereby; and”;
and
(iv) paragraph
(e) is re-lettered as paragraph (f).
14.
Section 5.02 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION
5.02. [Intentionally Deleted].”.
15.
Section 5.09 is amended by inserting the following immediately
before the period at the end of the first sentence thereof:
“, provided that
proceeds of Revolving Loans, and any of the Borrower’s cash
on hand, may be used by the Borrower in any Budget Period only in
the amounts and for the expenditures set forth in the Budget for
such Budget Period, subject to any Permitted
Deviation”.
16.
Section 5.12 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION 5.12. Right of
First Refusal .” The Borrower shall cause the right of
first refusal granted by the Borrower to Infogrames Entertainment,
S.A. on the terms set forth in Exhibit A to the Waiver and
Amendment to Credit Agreement to remain in full force and effect
through and including the 90th day after the effectiveness
thereof.”.
17.
Section 5.13 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION
5.13. [Intentionally Deleted].”.
18.
Section 6.01 is amended by amending and restating paragraphs
(e), (f) and (h), respectively, as follows:
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“(e) [intentionally
deleted];”;
“(f) [intentionally
deleted];”; and
“(h) [intentionally
deleted].”.
19.
Section 6.02 is amended by amending and restating paragraphs
(c) and (d), respectively, as follows:
“(c) [intentionally deleted];
and”; and
“(d) Liens created by the
Collateral Documents.”.
20.
Section 6.04 is amended by amending and restating paragraphs
(e), (g) and (i), respectively, as follows:
“(e) [intentionally
deleted];”;
“(g) [intentionally
deleted];”; and
“(i) [intentionally
deleted].”.
21.
Section 6.07(e) is amended and restated as follows:
“(e) [intentionally
deleted].”.
22.
Section 6.10 is amended by (i) amending and restating
paragraph (d) as follows:
“(d) [intentionally deleted];
and”; and
(ii) amending paragraph
(e) by deleting “in the ordinary course of its
business”, and inserting the following immediately before the
semicolon at the end thereof:
“, so long as the aggregate
value of all such licensed intellectual property does not exceed
$8,500,000 at any time, and that all such licenses are on terms and
subject to documentation in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent”.
23.
Section 6.12 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION 6.12. [Intentionally
Deleted].”.
24.
Section 6.13 is amended and restated as follows:
“SECTION 6.13. [Intentionally
Deleted].”.
25.
Section 6.14 is amended by deleting “$750,000” and
substituting therefor the following: “the amount set forth in
the Budget”.
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26.
Section 6.15 is amended and restated as follows:
“ SECT
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